Agreed. I used it too, and never had a problem with it, apart from the astonishingly long time to get money back and very bad support.
But now they could just have thought "hey, let's make some quick money and go away instead of bothering to keep running this show"...
Yes. I've been a long time gox user, but at the moment I think even BTC-e is more trustworthy than Mtgox which is kind of alarming.
Nobody really knows, and their quite-less-than-stellar communication skills surely don't help. Ensuing panic-selling was to be expected. And my guess is just that: they not only were expecting it, they probably created it exactly for this purpose.
Agree. Otherwise they would stop trading on their platform right now under these circumstances.